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A. D. FENWIGK.

COLLAR.

Patented Mar. 10, 1896..

IINTTED NSTATE-s ATENT PRICE.

ALBERT D. FENWIOK, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OFTI-IREE-FOURTIIS TO FRIEND WV. JOHNSTON, OF SAME PLACE, AND .IOIINREEOE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.'

' COLLAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 555,943, dated March10, 18961. Application led January l2, 1895. Serial No. 534,605. (Nomodel.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT D. FENWICK, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia andState of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Collars or Analogous Articles, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention has relation to collars or analogous articles.

The principal objects of my invention are, iirst, to provide a collar oranalogous article consisting of two blanks and a filling or stift'-ener, having exposed edges of the blanks and iilling or stitfener foldedinward and the blanks united by stitching passing through and throughthe folded or lapped edges thereof, and, second, to provide a collar oranalogous article made from blanks having the side and end edges turnedin or over onto the body and united by stitching, and a complementalturned in or over band united therewith by stitching and the corners orends reinforced or locked together by the interlapping of the parts ofthe blanks thereat and secured together by stitching, and to avoid theoperations of first running and turning or reversing and pressing theblanks in the production of the collar or analogous article.

Hitherto in the making of collars or the like vit has been customary tounite the blanks constituting the body and band of the collar or thelike by stitches along the edge and then to turn the band outward at thebottom and inward at the top and close the same by stitching.

According to my invention the body of the article consists of two blanksand a filling or stiffener, having the exposed lapped edges of theblanks and stiffener of that member united by stitching through thelapped edges thereof, and the band consisting of two blanks and astiifener having their edges turned in or over onto the body of the sameand united at portions by stitching and with the body by like stitching,thereby enabling a collar or analogous article to be cheaply made andwith a reduction in the number of operations in the production of thesame, for the reason fthe interior of the same. `sectional view on theline x a' of Fig. 2, and

serted and quickly sewed to the body to constitute the article for use.

My invention consists of a collar or analogous article produced insubstantially the manner hereinafter described and claimed.

The nature, scope, and characteristic features of my invention will bemore fully understood from the following description,taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, and in which-Figure l is a plan View of the blanks and stiffeners necessary to form acollar of my invention, the edges of said blanks being' lapped in orturned over and the blanks and stiifeners being shown therein in a formready to be united by a sewing operation through the lapped in or overedges and sides to produce an article having gutter edges at the end andside edges of the same. Fig. 2 is a perspective view, on Aan enlargedscale, showing one end of a collar of my invention with parts thereofpartially opened outwardly to disclose Fig. 3 is a cross- Fig. 4 is anenlarged perspective view of the locked or reinforced points of thecollar or analogous article.

In the drawings is illustrated a collar and the method of making thesame according to my invention.

With reference now to the drawings, a and tt are blanks of suitablematerial forming the neekband of the collar; b and h, the bodyblanks,and c and c the internal stiffeners of the body and band of the article,made of cloth, duck, or the like.

The assembled blanks a and ct' in Figs. 2 and 3 have their' horizontalupperand lower edges d and c respectively lapped in or folded down uponthe compleinentally folded-in edge of the stiifener c on one side, andon the other onto the inside body of the blanks, forming adjacent to theedges on one side a double thickness, and on the other side providedwith the folded edge stiffeners four thicknesses vof the materials, asfully illustrated in Fig. 3. The endsf and g are turned in or lappeddown in the same manner, constituting at the upper and lower corners ofthe neckband on one side six thicknesses of material, considering thefilling or stiffener c' as a part thereof, and at the upper and lowercorners of the neckband on the other side fou r thicknesses of material,and between the corners on both sides, respectively, two and fourthicknesses of material, as will be readily understood from Fig. 2 ofthe drawings.

The horizontal or upper edges j of the blanks b and h are folded down ina similar manner as the edges d and e of the blanks ct and ed, and theend edges k and l of the blanks b and ZJ are likewise folded in asimilar manner as the edges f and g of the blanks a and a', so thatthere is thus formed six thicknesses of the materials along the top andside edges of the blanks b and b, except at the corners m, where twelvethicknesses are provided of the materials. lt is found preferable, forreasons hereinafter mentioned, to form the corners 71, and t' of theneckbandblanks and corners m of the body-blanks as follows: In oneblankfor example, a of the neckband-the side fold, f, extends along theentire end from the upper to the lower edges d and e of the blank abefore the same are turned down, and a portion of said fold f isafterward turned down by said folds, while in the other blank, a, theend fold, g, is folded down after the upper and lower folds d and e areformed, thus turning in from the end a portion of said folds cl and e.In the same manner the corners m of the blanks Z) and b are respectivelyformed by turning down, say, in one blank, b, the end fold 7c, or, as inthe other blank, b, by turning in the upper fold, j. The stiff'ener orfilling c may be placed on the unfolded blank and its edges folded downwhen the edges of the respective blanks are folded in or over, asillustrated in Fig. 3, or it may be inserted under the lapped or foldedupper edge ,j of either blank b or b and a or a' and permanently securedthereto, when the collar is in a condition for stitching the blankstogether to complete the same. The completion of the collar isaccomplished in the following manner The body-blanks b and b/ and thestiffener c are united together by stitches n, passing through andthrough the material at its lapped or folded edges j, 7c and Z, theselapped portions facing each other, as will be readily understood, andthe lapped edge Z of the blank b, at its upper end, being tucked underthe end of the lapped edge j of the blank l). The blanks a and a arethen placed on either side of the body and stiii'ener and united theretoby continuing the stitching n around the band and through its lappededges d, e, f and g, these lapped edges, of course, facing each otherand the endg of the blank a', dovetailing into the groove formed in theother blank between the turned-down edges cl and e.

It may be here 'remarked that ornamentalA stitching may be employed.

My invention is applicable to the manufacture of collars and cuffs ofall sizes and shapes, formed first into blanks and then united bystitching and with gutter-edges at the sides, ends and top when unitedby being sewed together in the manner hereinbefore explained.

By such method of manufacture of the aforesaid article a great saving inmaterial, time and labor is effected, since the article is finished bytwo operations: first, the turning in or over of the edges of the blankswith the inserted stiffeners beneath the edges of one of the blanks ofthe body and neckband, and, second, uniting of the blanks of the bodyand neckband together by a stitching operation on a sewing-machine.

Heretofore the stiffeners and blanks were first sewed together on thereverse side, then turned inside out and flattened or pressed and thensewed on the right side. The old collar had to be finished by hand an dstretched and distorted to bring the blanks together into a proper shapeor condition. According to my invention the parts or blanks of thearticle are at once adjusted to each other when out out and the edgesare lapped in or over, whence a union is effected by a sewing orstitching operation, whereby a true collar or similar article is alwayswith accuracy insured.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A collar or analogous article, consisting of two blanks having thecorners of one blank of the horizontal folded edge folded onto theend-folded edge thereof and in the other blank the end-folded edgefolded onto the horizontal folded edge thereof and the several foldedIOO edges dovetailed or interlapped together and secured by stitchespassing through the same, substantially as described.

2. A collar or analogous article comprising body-blanks andneckband-blanks having infolded edges laid next each other, with thecorners of one blank of the horizontal folded edge folded onto theend-folded edge thereof and in the adjacent blank the end-folded edgefolded onto the horizontal folded edge thereof and interlapped; thebottom unfolded edges of the body-blanks being inserted between the topinfolded edges of the neckband-blanks, and the whole united togetheronly by stitches which pass from outside to outside of the article andthrough the infolded edges, substantially as described.

InV testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT D. FENlVlC/K.

Vitnesses:

THOMAS M. SMITH, RICHARD C. MAXWELL.

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